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Sovereignty vs Realpolitik - What's the difference?

sovereignty | realpolitik |

As nouns the difference between sovereignty and realpolitik

is that sovereignty is (of a polity) the state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations while realpolitik is realpolitik (government policy).

sovereignty

English

(sovereignty)

Noun

  • (of a polity) The state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations.
  • (of a ruler) Supreme authority over all things.
  • (of a person) The liberty to decide one's thoughts and actions.

    • realpolitik

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (politics) Pragmatic international government policy concerned with perceived interests of the nation.
  • * 2013 , Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history]
    • Twenty-first century nation states will no longer tolerate even the mild humiliation of hosting the detritus of 18th- and 19th-century empires. Most European empires were born of the realpolitik of power, mostly the treaties of Utrecht (1713) and Paris (1763). The same realpolitik now ordains their dismantling. An early purpose of the United Nations was to bring this about.